There it is. The inevitable consequence of broken politics & media . Someone should write a book...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
Net migration was 431,000 during 2024, down almost 300,000 on the July 2023-June 2024 figure of 728k
9/10 people did not expect it to fall. 6/10 thought it would rise
The lower 2025 visa data shows the current Spring 2025 rate will be lower again, running at about half the pre-election level.
9/10 people did not expect it to fall. 6/10 thought it would rise
The lower 2025 visa data shows the current Spring 2025 rate will be lower again, running at about half the pre-election level.
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Today your first caller frustrated me.
So I asked ChatGPT:
What would the UK look like if no immigrants had ever come here since the 1970s, what would the loss of them mean?
The answer? A cultural ghost town. A scientific vacuum. A political void.
No Lenny Henry = no Comic Relief.
Which means:
No global spotlight on UK charity.
No Love Actually, Notting Hill, or Four Weddings (Curtis worked with Lenny and arguably helped promote his career.)
No Red Red Wine.
No British reggae.
No M People.
No Soul II Soul.
No Craig David.
No Stormzy.
No Glastonbury 2019.
No MOBO Awards.
You don't just lose songs — you lose identities.
No Beverley Knight.
No NAO.
No British soul.
No blueprint for a Black British woman to top charts with elegance, depth, and power.
The music industry stays male, pale, and very stale.
No Rashford free school meals campaign.
No Bukayo Saka — or 2021 Euro final heroics.
The England team looks like 1970s Subbuteo.
Flat. Fragile. Forgotten.
No Magdi Yacoub = no heart transplants for thousands.
No South Asian or Caribbean nurses.
The NHS wouldn’t be on its knees.
It would be dead.
No Sayeeda Warsi.
No Rishi Sunak, even.
No Black or Asian MPs.
A parliament unchallenged. A system unshaken. A future unopened.
We’re driving away the EU folx and also quite a few British nationals.
It’s such a shame immigration is vilified when we need it. Especially in the health care sector.
Mr O'Brien routinely asserts the presence of fisher price binoculars yet no such item is present.
Is he misleading his listeners?
"I'm just asking the question".
Exhibit 'A':
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186365030445?_ul=GB&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338365712&toolid=20006&customid=EAIaIQobChMIgLu5wo-3jQMVcZVQBh3XUxYdEAQYBSABEgJsDPD_BwE|null|null&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgLu5wo-3jQMVcZVQBh3XUxYdEAQYBSABEgJsDPD_BwE
When the Ukraine war is over, Putin gone, and without young people, mostly dead.
Migration will make its way to Russia, simply because there will be too few people to work and care for the sick, old and injured.
Of which, I am sorry to say, there will be many.
But migration of people who are desperate for food, shelter, water... they will.
With the horror stories daily in our news.
I hope one day that all humans, all countries and states will come to their senses.
I know plenty of people making plans to jet offski.
Change is good; geopolitically, environmentally, change is creating a need for response leadership.
Reformists refute, deny, & prepare to fail.